Educational programmes and modules with the EIT Label have a strong focus on innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity, leadership and on shaping a sustainable society based on ethics and human values.
The mission of EIT-labelled educational activities is to ensure that students achieve a set of EIT Overarching Learning Outcomes (EIT OLOs) that address these issues.
EIT-labelled programmes ensure that students can demonstrate:
Entrepreneurship skills and competencies (EIT OLO 1)
- Master: The capacity to identify and act upon opportunities and ideas to create social, cultural and financial value for others, including translating innovations into feasible business solutions, with sustainability at their core.
- Doctoral: The capacity to identify, synthesize and act upon opportunities and ideas to create social, cultural and financial value for others, including translating innovations into feasible business solutions, with sustainability at their core, and to lead and support others in this process
Innovation skills and competencies (EIT OLO 2)
- Master: The ability to formulate knowledge, ideas and technology to create new or significantly improved products, services, processes, policies, new business models or jobs, and to mobilise system innovation to contribute to broader societal change, while evaluating the unintended consequences of innovation and technology.
- Doctoral: The ability to translate innovations into feasible business solutions and to lead and support others in this process.
Creativity skills and competencies (EIT OLO 3)
- Master: The ability to think beyond boundaries and systematically explore and generate new ideas.
- Doctoral: The ability to extend boundaries and systematically explore and generate new ideas and to inspire and support others in this process and contribute to the further development of those ideas.
Intercultural skills and competencies (EIT OLO 4)
- Master: The ability to engage and act internationally and to function effectively across cultures, sectors and/or organisations, to think and act appropriately and to communicate and work with people from different cultural and organisational backgrounds.
- Doctoral: The ability to engage and act internationally and to function effectively – in research and other activities – across cultures, sectors and/or organisations, to think and act appropriately and to communicate and work with people from different cultural and organisational backgrounds.
Making value judgments and sustainability competencies (EIT OLO 5)
- Master: The ability to identify short‐ and long‐term future consequences of plans and decisions from an integrated scientific, ethical and intergenerational perspective and to merge this into a solution‐focused approach, moving towards a sustainable and green society.
- Doctoral: The ability to identify short‐ and long‐term future consequences of plans and decisions from an integrated scientific, ethical and intergenerational perspective and to merge this into their professional activities, moving towards a sustainable and green society.
Leadership skills and competencies (EIT OLO 6)
- Master: The ability of decision‐making and leadership based on a holistic understanding of the contributions of Higher Education research and business to value creation, in limited sized teams and contexts.
- Doctoral: The ability of decision‐making and leadership based on a holistic understanding of the contributions of Higher Education, research and business to value creation.
These learning outcomes may be refined by the EIT and its Innovation Communities when deemed necessary, in compliance with current and future European standards for cooperation in higher education and research. The EIT OLOs complement the learning outcomes of the Qualifications Framework of the European Higher Education Area and should, as with these, be transformed into more specific outcomes at programme and module levels, and be connected to relevant forms of assessment, teaching and learning activities.